Conjure an image of the archetypal Jewish "Bubby" and she likely resembles Shira Ginsburg's grandmother, who, from her kitchen table in Troy, was known for dishing out heaps of Jewish comfort food, alongside hearty helpings of sage advice and humor.

"Everything significant seemed to unfold in that kitchen around the table," Ginsburg recalled.

Her grandmother, her history and her kitchen are all the subject of Ginsburg's one-woman show, "Bubby's Kitchen," which will hit the stage at Proctors this Sunday.

Through a combination of monologue, Yiddish, liturgical and musical theater songs, Ginsburg, 35, recounts growing up in and around her Bubby's kitchen, in a family of Holocaust survivors and one-time resistance fighters from Eastern Europe.

Her grandmother, Judith, a native of present-day Belarus, survived World War II by living and fighting in the forest. She lost her entire family. In 1949, after four years in a displaced persons camp, Ginsburg's grandparents immigrated to Troy.

"As a child you just soak it in," said Ginsburg. "You don't realize how important those formative years are and how much they impact who you are and how you grow up."

For Ginsburg, writing "Bubby's Kitchen" was as much about telling the hard-fought story of her grandparents as it was about processing that family history and exploring how it helped shape the woman she eventually became.

After growing up on a dairy farm in Brunswick, Ginsburg studied drama and musical theater at Syracuse University before eventually becoming an invested cantor at East End Temple in Manhattan.

Growing up, her grandmother's kitchen table was often a place she received wisdom, as well as frequent meals — favorites included her grandmother's soups and rugelach. The kitchen is the setting of her play, just as, she said, it was the setting for many of the climactic moments in her life.

The show originally began as part of her cantorial thesis, but since then "has taken on a life of its own," said Ginsburg, spawning performances throughout the Northeast, as well as Miami and Seattle. Union College Hillel was able to bring the show to Proctors — and provide free admission — with the help of a Holocaust Remembrance Grant it received.

"We all have to find these ways to keep our stories alive," said Ginsburg. "This is my modality."

As for Bubby, now 88, her kitchen has since moved to Florida, though it still dispenses the same familiar mix of cookery and wisdom.